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Recorded "Blue Bloods" from local KKTV via dish on 13 May 2011. Viewing stops with 37:30 remaining. Total time recorded shows 61 min. I still have the episode recorded on my DVR.

This is the second or third time this has happened. Last spring it happend on the season finale. I cussed and forgot about it. It has happened at least one time before that, but I do not recall specifics.

Let me know if you need additional info.

Moderator - If you want to open a specific thread to capture each occurrance of this I'll be happy to re-enter this info.

Seriously, how many times does this have to be reported to get some action? I have several recordings that have ended early if anyone, ANYONE, at Dish would like to investigate. Do these "reports" actually get addressed or go in the file 13?

I looked up some info and will get this sent in to our operations dept to do further research into it. All I need is the software # from your 722k's experiencing the problem. If you can post that here I will get that submitted.

Tommy,

It's been 4 months since you posted the above message. What's happening to fix this problem?

I just had another program end about 20 minutes early.

Is this problem going to get fixed or not? If not then please tell me how to get a refund credit for my missed programs.

I've been keeping track of how much space/time recordings actually take up on the HDD to see if there is any significant savings if local channels were recorded via the satellite tuner compared to the OTA tuner. Essentially a satellite recording of CBS, NBC, ABC or Fox uses about half the capacity of their OTA recordings. CBS uses the most because it is 1080 & has no sub-channels to use some of the bitrate.

I deleted the two corrupt recordings on my DVR & they fell short of what should have been gained back in recording capacity.

“Chicago Code” from satellite Fox HD stopped with about 22:30 remaining out of 1:04:00, therefore it played about only 41:30. From my data, 1 hr of sat Fox HD takes up an average of 24 mins of recording capacity. “Chicago Code”took up only 16 minutes of capacity. Doing the math this comes up with 40 minutes play time, which pretty closely matches the 41:30 actual playing time as noted above.

“Jesse Stone" from OTA CBS HD stopped with about 2:33:30 remaining out of 2:46:00, therefore it played about only 12:30. From my data, 1 hr of OTA CBS HD takes up an average of 80 mins of recording capacity. "Jesse Stone" took up only 18 minutes of capacity. Doing the math this comes up with 13.5 minutes play time, which pretty closely matches the 12:30 actual playing time as noted above.

What this means is that only partial programs were recorded based on the HD capacity they used. This is despite what "My Recordings" indicate. IOW it is not like the whole recording is there but ended early. It ended early because that's all there was. Or at least the HDD thinks so.

I typically don't have that issue; it only misses the last 1-15 minutes of a show because the previous show ran over. You'd think Dish would have a way base timers on actual airing rather than timers. I've given up worrying about it now that Dish Online seems to work well. I just watch the ending (or the whole show) on my PC (which I have hdmi'ed to my TV in case I want to watch it "big").

This issue happened to me tonight (posted in a couple other threads before finding this one). Scheduled a 3 hour live event with an extra hour, just in case. Started watching while it was still recording (about 2.5 hours into the event). It played about the first hour, then jumped to live tv. I tried everything to go back, then let the recording finish and tried again. No matter what I do, the show ends at the same spot about an hour in. Even archiving it to the external drive and playing it from there does the same thing.

This problem has been mentioned in a few threads & also on another forum. I even had things set up to send Dish my system logs when the problem occurred, which I did. They said this was supposedly fixed in a firmware update. And since it did not happen to me for quite some time perhaps it was a one time glitch. Obviously it's not.

I don't want to "hijack the GD thread" for a third time, but it looks as though everything I said is what you finally found out, could not get addressed and am now still experiencing including the "dismay" I had back then. TYS.

Since this is occurring again, please PM me your receiver number so I can submit a trouble report to our engineers about this issue to investigate again. Please let me know. Thanks.

It happened again this evening. My 2 hr 16 min recording ended with 1 hr 20 mins left. This was OTA and no storms in my area yet.

Ray C - I've already jumped through numerous hoops in order to resolve this. Another Dish employee had set things up so that when I had a problem someone in your engineering or IT dept was enabled to access my DVR logs. And when the problem occured I emailed the proper parties as I was requested. They were either out of town or sick. Of course I didn't know that because they never updated their email to reflect this & of course never provided an alternate contact person. Later I was told that a firmware update supposedly fixed the problem. Obviously Dish has no intention of fixing this problem otherwise they would have done so.after a couple of years. I'm glad my homemade HTPC has never missed or screwed up a recording. I'm already in contact with another Dish person in order to get a replacement DVR. We'll see how that one works.

Please consider a fifth. I just read this entire thread and can say that I have had recordings end early also. I have a 722k with dual OTA tuners.

Quite disturbing considering the OP started this thread on 11/7/10, had confirmation over the months by several senior members, with at least one who provided excellent documentation to Dish. Five months later and......... nothing. Aren't there Dish employees that monitor and provide feedback on some threads?

Just returned to dbstalk. Here it is many years later and the problem still exists. Wow!

Just returned to dbstalk. Here it is many years later and the problem still exists. Wow!

Thanks for the update on what is going on with the recordings ending early. Has the DVR been setup to extend the record time? If so, are there back to back recordings with adjusted timer’s setup as well?

There is at least one Engineer at Dish that was working on this issue. He called it the "Early Ending" issue as opposed to my "Early Termination" description. It is a known issue. In fact, as you can see, Dish has not solved the issue in three+ years.

As described above, one might have a timer set to start 1 minute early and end three minutes late.

When done, the recording will appear on the list with a duration of 104 minutes.

During playback, at some seemingly random point, the recording will jump to end of recording splash screen. If while you ar viewing that screen, you push the jump back button the video will play for a few seconds and then once again jump to the send splash screen. This happens with OTA recordings, Sat recordings, when two or more recordings are going on and the point where the video ends has been as early as just a few minutes into the recording and as late as the last few minutes. Due to other issues I have had maybe ten different 722k receivers and every one of them has had the issue AFAIK.

If you want the E-mail addy of the Engineer that I used to deal with, I can provide it to you privately.

PS This currently happens maybe once every couple of months with my usage.

It's happened to me twice during the last week, both times on TNT. About 15 minutes into a 70 minute recording it jumps to the end. The first program I was able to catch a re-broadcast & get it, but not with the second program. I tried to watch the second one, "Perception", on TNT.com which is available because of their partnership with DISH. But the streaming would hang up after several of the commercials that you had to watch. So I gave up on that.